> It sounds strange because X does not know anything about Window title, frame,
> border and the rest, it just draw all that stuff. A window manager is
> responsible for that.
I agree, it sounds odd, but it is definitely an X problem. I
installed xserver-mach64 3.3.6-44. Now the problem has gone away.
However it has been replaced by another problem: the backspace key now
behaves like the delete key. I can fix this after logging in with:
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x16 = BackSpace"
Anybody know how to fix this permanently (without modifying users'
files)?
Getting back to the original problem of raising windows, here are a
couple more observations:
1. I wiped out version 4.1 of X with dpkg --purge, then reinstalled.
Problem was still there.
2. I upgraded a second machine which is also acting as an X-terminal
to debian testing and X version 4.1; this machine does NOT have the
same problem.
Machine with problem
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ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 92)
serial mouse (Logitech MouseMan)
old-style keyboard connector
Machine without problem
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VGA compatible controller: ATI Unknown device (rev 39).
Vendor id=1002. Device id=4752.
PS/2 mouse
PS/2 keyboard
> Do you have a different keyboard on that terminal?
Funny you should ask. This machine has an old-style keyboard
connector. Furthermore, the keyboard is a little bit odd: it has a
key labelled "Macro" in the bottom left, and the backslash key is to
the right of the bottom right CTRL key. Other than that it looks like
a standard pc101 keyboard. The really funny thing is that this is the
ONLY keyboard which the mother board recognizes. If I plug in another
old-style keyboard, on boot-up the BIOS complains about a missing
keyboard.
> Or do you have kxkb
> running to switch keyboard from ascii to something different?
Nope.
Thanks for your suggestions!
